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9 unusual facts about Pulse


Cyclone Olivia

1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak – produced an F5 tornado which had winds estimated at 511 km/h (318 mph) by the doppler data of the weather radar

Guy Gilchrist

He has designed logos for Minor League baseball teams, including the Portland Sea Dogs, Norwich Navigators, and New Britain Rock Cats, and also designed the J. League football team Shimizu S-Pulse's mascot, Palchan.

Les Percussions de Guinée

In 2002, World Music Productions Inc. arranged for Les Percussions de Guinée to appear in the IMAX film, Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey.

Mount Musgrave

The summit of the mountain hosts Environment Canada's doppler weather radar station "XME", part of the Canadian weather radar network.

Pulse-frequency modulation

It is analogous to Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM), in which the magnitude of an analog signal is encoded in the duty cycle of a square wave.

Pulse-position modulation

Pulse position modulation is also used for communication to the ISO/IEC 15693 contactless smart card as well as the HF implementation of the Electronic Product Code (EPC) Class 1 protocol for RFID tags.

Quadrajet

The solenoid-controlled metering rods allow the fuel mixture to be very close to optimum, then the solenoid is pulse width modulated at about 6 Hz to fine-tune the air fuel ratio under closed loop conditions.

S-PULSE

S-PULSE is a support action of the European Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) that stimulates joint efforts of European academic and industrial groups in the field of superconducting technologies.

TVonics

On October 22, 2012, it was reported that UK based Pulse-Eight have bought the TVonics brand and the technology behind TVonics DVRs, and announced a plan to create a next-generation of TVonics set-top box based on the popular open source media player software, XBMC, running on top of Android.


Additive rhythm and divisive rhythm

The most basic duple-pulse figure found in the Music of Africa and music of the African diaspora is a figure the Cubans call tresillo, a Spanish word meaning 'triplet' (three equal beats in the same time as two main beats).

Arteriograph

The new technology TensioClinic Arteriograph is the first evidence based medicine diagnostic device, which reportedly measures internationally accepted arterial stiffness parameters (Pulse Wave Velocity and Augmentation Index) together with central and peripheral blood pressure in a 3-minute session.

Audio analyzer

For example, the Rohde and Schwarz UPP offers AES/EBU, S/PDIF, I²S and HDMI options; the Audio Precision APx525 supports AES/EBU, S/PDIF, I²S, HDMI, PDM (Pulse Density Modulation), and Bluetooth radio, and is fully DSP based.

Belwania

Instead of these two products rice, wheat, pulse, maize, mustard, grains etc. are also being produced by the farmers.

C-UWB

Continuous pulse UWB technology was the basis of one of the physical layers specified by the IEEE 802.15.4a standard.

Capsula

The Austin Chronicle wrote about Capsula live show at APF: "Capsula’s dark wave rock – surfing basslines, needling leads, and kit-crashing propulsion – pushes the motoring thrust of early Black Rebel Motorcycle Club with its own distinct pulse. These aren’t musicians playing at a band, they’re a fabulous gilded snake, writhing on a big stage while plying seismic garage rock."

Carl von Liebermeister

"Liebermeister's rule" states that in adult febrile tachycardia, pulse-beats increase at a rate of approximately eight beats per minute to each degree Celsius.

Chris Monroe

Her work has been published in Funny Times, Ripsaw, the Funny Pages, Zenith City Arts, Madcap, Twin Cities Reader, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Transistor and Ruminator.

Control track

The control track encodes a series of pulses, each pulse corresponding to the beginning of each frame.

CTV Two Atlantic

Bruce Frisko - co-anchor of Atlantic Pulse/anchor of ATV Headline News/news anchor for Breakfast Television (now at CTV Atlantic)

Davido

On April 6, 2012, Nigerian Entertainment Today reported that MTN Nigeria signed Davido to a N30 million deal, unveiling him as the face of MTN Pulse, a marketing campaign for Nigerian youths.

Dejan Jakovic

Dejan Jakovic Dejan Jaković; born 16 July 1985 in Karlovac) is a Canadian international soccer player who currently plays for Shimizu S-Pulse in J. League Division 1.

Delta Sigma

Delta-sigma modulation, a pulse density modulation scheme used in analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversions

Dženan Radončić

Dženan Radončić (Cyrillic: Џенан Радончић; born 2 August 1983 in Plav) is a Montenegrin football player playing for Shimizu S-Pulse in Japan's J.League Division 1 (J1).

Enzmann starship

The ball of frozen deuterium powered thermonuclear powered pulse propulsion units, similar to Project Orion engines.

Family names in North Karnataka

Surnames drawn from Food Items are Balikai (Banana), Bendikai (Okra), Bellolli (Garlic), ULLagaDDi (Onion), MeNasinakai (Chilli), Tenginakai (Coconut), Byali (Pulse/Dal), Tuppa (Ghee), Palle (Vegetable), Guggari (Boiled Food grains), Churamari (Bhel), Sajji (A type of Food grain), Akki (Rice), Jola (Jawar)

Hercules Transit Center

The transit center is a pulse (a timed and synchronized) transfer point for various local feeder bus lines from the adjacent areas of Hercules, Pinole, Rodeo, the northern Hilltop area of Richmond, Bayview-Montalvin, and Tara Hills.

John Psathas

Highlights in 2002 included the premieres of several major works, including View From Olympus a double concerto for piano, percussion and orchestra performed by Evelyn Glennie, Philip Smith and the Halle Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder at the Royal Gala finale of the Commonwealth Games 'Pulse' music festival in Manchester, UK.

L. albus

Lupinus albus, a traditional white lupin pulse species cultivated in the Mediterranean region

Last of Seven

It has received some airplay on satellite radio stations, The Pulse on Sirius, and Flight 26 on XM.

Long Depression

Another response to the economic crisis, according to Jorge Pinto Rodríguez, was the new pulse of conquest of indigenous lands that took place in Araucanía in the 1870s.

Magrunner: Dark Pulse

Magrunner: Dark Pulse is a first-person action puzzle game developed by Frogwares (3AM Games) and published by Focus Home Interactive.

Maria Theresia von Paradis

The attempt to cure Maria Theresia by Franz Anton Mesmer is fictionalised in a short story called "Harmony" by Julian Barnes, in his 2011 collection of short stories, Pulse.

Max Kinnings

Other feature films in development include, Alleycats, written by Max with Ian Bonhôte of Pulse Films due to direct, and an adaptation of Baptism with producer/director, Phil Hawkins.

Northern Mystics

The Mystics gained Silver Ferns stalwarts Maria Tutaia and Joline Henry from the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic, as well as Althea Byfield (Jamaican international) from the Central Pulse and Jenny-May Coffin from retirement.

Osc-Dis

The song "Pulse" appears on the in-game soundtrack to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3.

Par Avion

Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews), Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly), John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), Danielle Rousseau (Mira Furlan) and the captured Other Mikhail Bakunin (Andrew Divoff) learn from Mikhail that the implosion at "The Swan" station sent an electromagnetic pulse which wiped out an underwater beacon.

Pulse pressure

If the patient suffers from elevated pulse pressure, treatment may include medications that address this factor, such as an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACE inhibitor).

Pulse Ultra

Pulse Ultra was initially formed as Head Space in 1997 by guitarist Dominic Cifarelli and bassist Jeff Feldman.

Reserection EP

Daho only released "Jungle Pulse" as a single at first, but later Eurodance producer Steve Rodway produced a remix of "Accident" that became "He's on the Phone", released as the single from Saint Etienne's first greatest hits compilation, Too Young to Die - The Singles.

Rian Malan

The film documents a journey through South Africa, investigating unfolding political dramas and taking the pulse of the Rainbow Nation.

SAM-N-2 Lark

Six of the Convair airframes were given to Raytheon to explore use of velocity-gated continuous wave doppler radar for guided missile target seekers, while most other United States investigators used range-gated pulse radar.

Shenyang J-8

It was hoped to equip the production J-8B with an American AN/APG-66(V) radar (to be dubbed the J-8C), but this proved politically impossible after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 so the indigenous Type 208A mono-pulse fire-control radar initially was used.

Shopping cart

In 2004 the British supermarket chain Tesco trialled shopping carts with built in resistance (adjustable from 1 to 10), pulse monitoring and calorie counting hardware in an effort to raise awareness of health issues.

Sidney H. Liebson

At a time when electronics had not been able to make measurements with nanosecond accuracy, he developed several techniques to accomplish this accuracy for measuring organic fluorescence decay times and organic scintillation pulse widths by indirect means.

Southern Pulse

Southern Pulse was founded in 2004 by Samuel Logan, a writer and investigative journalist, as a private human intelligence organization with focus in Latin America.

SSFP

Steady-state free precession imaging, a family of pulse sequences for magnetic resonance imaging

Ted Thornby

Thornby is said to be the only Ghost hunter to have invented "Weapons" against spirits, his main achievement is said to be a small EMP grenade, which uses a small Electromagnetic Pulse to diffuse the spirit.

Wavetable synthesis

Starting around 1993, with the introduction of Creative Labs' Sound Blaster AWE32 and Gravis' Ultrasound sound cards, the term "wavetable" started to be applied as a marketing term to any sound card that used PCM samples as the basis of sound creation.

Yezin Agricultural University

The farms growing the specialized crops are: paddy in Hmawbi in Yangon Region; maize and cereals in Aungban in Shan State; pulse and oil crops in Magway in Magway Region; cotton in Nangyaw in Mandalay Region; sugarcane in Nyaungbintha in Bago Region; perennial crops in Hpa Auk in Mon State, and horticultural crops in Hlegu in Yangon Region.


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